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    "id": 1319698,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mogotio, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kiborek Reuben",
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    "content": "handy to resuscitate our economy which was not doing well. He has done his bit; he is still doing his bit. Only that it is easy to criticise the man in the arena, as it was once said. All those Members here come from constituencies. They are criticised when constituents feel they are not doing good. However, they know the efforts they are making. It is very difficult to govern when there is an economic crisis. The President made a deliberate move to put about 27 per cent of our Budget into the key issue of education. He was elected when the CBC was about to take off. He has done his best to put CBC on the right path. He has employed 56,000 teachers. That has never been seen in this country. We applaud the President for that because education is the foundation of our country’s economic growth. The President did well on healthcare matters. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Health. We have come up with three to four Bills, the Social Health Insurance Fund, the Primary Healthcare Fund and the Emergency Chronic and Critical Illness Fund. That will bring our economy back and do radical reforms to it. As one who sits in the Departmental Committee on Health, I can assure you our healthcare system will have changed in the next 10 or so months. There will be a paradigm shift from how we used to do things in this country. He brought about 100,000 Community Health Promoters (CHPs) who will go a long way in identifying and solving disease issues at the primary healthcare level. Since the time of COVID-19, the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) has been facing a downturn. It has been in a total crisis and problems. The President, in his wisdom, came up with a plan to resuscitate and bring back KEMSA. It will supply drugs to our hospitals and make our healthcare system run smoothly. We commend the team at KEMSA and the President. In the Budget, the President increased the allocation to KEMSA. That is so that it picks up from where it was to serve this country well. Cattle rustling is a very serious challenge in the northern part of the country where I come from. We commend the President. He is on a journey to silence the guns that have been terrorising our people. He spoke well about it. His formula seems to be bearing fruit. We tell the President that we support him. As Kenyans of goodwill who love peace, we have to stand with him so that he brings to an end the menace of insecurity that has been in this country since Independence. Some of the Members here who come from towns and areas where there is no agriculture do not know the impact the fertiliser subsidy has brought to this country. We encourage and commend the President for what he has done to subsidise fertiliser and transform agriculture in our country. The President is a President at a time when there is no other leader who could have taken Kenya through the challenges we are facing. Had we got the handshake brothers, this country would be a banana republic. Thanks to the genius of Hon. William Ruto, he has kept the country going. He removed the country from the economic cliff it was facing courtesy of the handshake brothers. Today we have seen that they constructed a leaking airport. It is a shame how the handshake brothers ruled this country in the past three years. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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